Melting Ice: What is Happening to Arctic Sea Ice, and What Does It Mean for Us?
Sea ice has emerged as the canary in the coal mine of climate change. Its summer extent in the Arctic has decreased by about 50% over the past decade, and the Arctic Ocean has undergone a regime shift from a cover of thick multiyear ice to a largely seasonal and much thinner ice cover. The recent lo...
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The Oceanography Society
2013-06-01
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| Series: | Oceanography |
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| Online Access: | http://tos.org/oceanography/archive/26-2_walsh.pdf |